With 2,300 jobs lost and more to come, the tides are turning across Ireland's tech industry

This digital bridge is a brain–spine interface which allows Gert-Jan Oskam to regain control over the movement of his legs, enabling him to stand, walk and even climb stairs

The latest wave of job cuts is set to shrink Meta’s Irish workforce to 2,600 and will impact around 6,000 jobs in total across its global operations.

The social network has floundered since the tech billionaire took over — political live streams may give the platform relevance, write Kari Paul, Johana Bhuiyan, and Maanvi Singh

While Apple rose above $3tn in early 2022, it failed to close above that level, and the peak marked the start of a downtrend that resulted in a 27% drop that year

Hiring at medtech and biopharma firms has increased by 19% since the onset of the pandemic — and the booming sector may be hiring many people laid off due to the global tech downturn 

The pilot, successfully used in the Western Indian Ocean, could save millions of euro a year in research and assisting fishers in developing nations

BT Group has announced plans to cut 55,000 workers by the end of the decade, with around 10,000 of those cuts at the telecoms firm related to digitisation, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Pearse Doherty said he was “utterly disgusted and sickened to the core” to see the video of an attack on a boy in Navan

John Savage of Action Point says less than one in three organisations have a digital training plan and budget in place

More than one third of students (38%) say use their phones for more than four hours per day, and 16% say they use them for more than six hours per day

Your columnist is not a science man. All that remains from science in secondary school is a random term or two. The Irish for physics (fisic).

Paul Tweed used Microsoft as an example of a company that should be liable for the spread of misleading information through AI

The Irish Times' editor has apologised to its readers for a 'breach of trust' after an opinion article on its website was found to be a hoax created, at least partially, using artificial intelligence.

Web Summit boss takes to Twitter to vent about 'corruption' in Irish politics 

Steve Wozniak argued that responsibility for programmes generated by AI lies with those who publish it: “A human really has to take the responsibility for what is generated by AI.” 

Yes, there are sobering risks, but also potential for huge advances. We need to agree some global rules of the game

Apple will likely report a more than 4% drop in revenue, its second straight quarterly decline, weighed down by consumers shunning non-essential purchases such as iPhones and Mac computers and slowing growth at its services business.

Investors are starting to see the downside from the rapid acceptance of artificial intelligence, as California education company called Chegg plunged after it warned that the quick rise to popularity of ChatGPT tool is causing fewer students to sign ...

The acquisition makes Viatel a “one stop cloud shop”, says chief executive officer Paul Rellis.

Stripe offers an average salary of more than $9,000 (€8,204) a month for the temporary, entry-level gigs, which mostly go to college students and recent graduates.

Markets are not yet reflecting upbeat news of resilient consumer spending, positive big tech results, and firms' confident forecasts

Dublin-headquartered Playrix is the world’s third-largest mobile game publisher

IDA Ireland has told staff to delete video-sharing app TikTok from their devices, despite the company being one of its clients.

Shares soar 9% in extended trading.

The latest earnings from Google and Microsoft, which together directly employ 9,000 people in the Republic, are being closely watched for any signs of further layoffs.

Official Irish figures suggest that so far the fallout has been limited on the wider economy here

Numbers employed in tech sector in Ireland swelled to 125,900 in February, up from 118,900 a year earlier

Many thanks to the folks at Callanan’s Bar on George’s Quay for posting a picture on social media last week. Of a phonebox just down the street. “Does eircom still exist?,” ran the caption underneath the picture.

Morgan McKinley Employment Monitor indicates that the construction sector had the largest growth in job opportunities

A number of charities that saw the personal data they held on abuse victims stolen in a ransomware attack could face sanction from the data regulator.

MEPs have called on EU leaders to hold a summit to find ways to control the development of advanced artificial intelligence, or AI,  systems such as ChatGPT, saying they were developing faster than expected.

Bing’s threat to Google’s search dominance has escalated in recent months with the addition of OpenAI’s technology to provide ChatGPT-like responses to user queries

Oblivious is focused on confidential computing aimed at building tools to allow data scientists and machine learning models to work on sensitive data while enforcing confidentiality constraints

Accounting firm called off plan to break up its audit and consulting units, slamming the brakes on a proposed overhaul of its business

Performance noise

X Corp was set up on March 9 in Nevada with its merger with Twitter submitted on March 15, according to records filed in the state

Researchers from the University of Florida analysed dozens of hours of table tennis matches where humans were pitted against machines and each other

Of the top five PC makers analysed in the reports, Apple saw the largest drop with a fall of more than 40%. That was followed by Dell with a drop of around 31%

Groups with official-sounding names have alleged certain books violate child protection legislation and are on a mission to scaremonger, misinform, and mislead

There are many negatives in the Irish economy at present with the poorly performing housing market probably top of the list. But, one very positive feature of the economy, is the performance of the labour market.

The Defence Forces has spent almost €1. 25 million on recruitment advertising over the past two years, trying to drum up interest among new recruits.

Over the past two decades, Apple has averaged an annual return of 39%, including dividends. The S&P 500 index, by comparison, sits at 10%

After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.